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At least it’s better to be married than to be dead.

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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
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Attack Neighbor Room
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
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Heart Integrity Virtue
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE

Fool Ignorance Learning
Too great haste leads us to error.
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Error Greatness Haste
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
I recover my property wherever I find it.
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Finding Myself Property Recover
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
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Nobility Virtue
It’s true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE

Finding Heaven Pleasure True
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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Drive Home Reason
To create a public scandal is what’s wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.
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Creation Private Sin Wicket
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
MOLIERE

Desire Embrace Mercy People Satisfaction
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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Day Love Reason Rule Yourself
He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
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Himself Kill Money
Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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Ancestor Born Glorious Virtue
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Boredom Happiness Hard Time
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul

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